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Domesticating Revolution

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Description for Domesticating Revolution paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 499.

The collapse of state socialism in 1989 focused attention on the transition to democracy and capitalism in Eastern Europe. But for many people who actually lived through the transition, the changes were often disappointing. Perhaps none were more disappointed than the villagers of rural Bulgaria whose very lifestyles and identities were threatened by the transition. Domesticating Revolution explains this unexpected outcome through a detailed study of economic reform in one Bulgarian village, from the beginning of collectivization in the 1940s to decollectivization efforts in the 1990s.

Gerald Creed is the only American anthropologist to have conducted extended fieldwork in a ... Read more

Domesticating Revolution will force scholars to rethink both their models of state socialism and their interpretations of the transition.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271017136
SKU
V9780271017136
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Gerald W. Creed
Gerald W. Creed is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Reviews for Domesticating Revolution
“Gerald Creed has written the best book available on contemporary events in Bulgaria. It clearly demonstrates why ethnographic methods are essential to understanding events since 1989: such methods reveal how daily practice ‘domesticates’ both socialism and its aftermath, disrupting the calculus of policies imposed from above. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, this book will be useful to students and policy-makers ... Read more

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